One day, we visited a manufacturing client with a senior corporate relationship manager. We drove through a dusty, potholed two-lane road and it took us the better part of the afternoon to make the visit in the hot sun, passing many street merchants along the way who wanted to sell us their wares – everything from phone chargers to sunglasses. Today, almost 10 years after my internship, that dusty, potholed two-lane road is now a flagship 8-lane superhighway. [...]